Regrettable tattoos are more than just regrettable. They’re unfortunate, disappointing and frustrating because at some point, long loooong ago that weren’t THAT bad.

Take this tribal tattoo as exhibit ehhhhh — in 1995-ish this tattoo was probably considered funking awesome. Twenty years of fading and fashion later and it looks like a flamingo doing a pole dance for food.

Now, this bro could have taken the easy way out buy covering up the massive tattoo with an even bigger tattoo. A tattoo he’ll love until, like what, twenty years from now? Instead, he did the smart thing and made a slight modification to this tribal to explain to all exactly how he feels about his shoulder art.

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In case you can’t read the asterisk, it states, “I was 17 at the time.”